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From: mark@hsi.com. (Mark Sicignano)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Interrupt Signals
Message-ID: <2267@hsi86.hsi.com.>
Date: 8 Oct 90 14:41:22 GMT
Reply-To: mark@hsi.com (Mark Sicignano)
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT.
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I have a program that when run, fork()s, the parent exits, and 
the child continues to run in the background.  

I don't handle any signals specially.  I fire up this program
in my .profile, but when I press ^C, my keyboard interrupt,
the program exits.  If I run this program at my prompt, however,
the program does not exit when I press the ^C.  

Why is this so??

Ksh Version 11/16/88d on a 4.3 BSD system.

-mark
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Mark Sicignano                                  ...!uunet!hsi!mark
3M Health Information Systems                   mark@hsi.com